Vinay Prakash Singh vs Sameer Gehlaut

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2022 Supreme(SC) 1177

K. M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROY
Vinay Prakash Singh – Appellant
Versus
Sameer Gehlaut – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Applicant : Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Dewan, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Rohan Thawani, Adv.
For the Non-applicant : Mr. Rajiv Dutta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Mishra, Adv. Ms. Devna Arora, Adv. Ms. Samridhi Hota, Adv. Mr. Varad Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Astha Ahuja, Adv. Ms. Gauri Goburdhan, Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Satija, Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao, Adv. Ms. Mansi Taneja, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, AOR Mr. Vivek Jain, AOR M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Hardeep Singh Anand, AOR Mr. Faisal Sherwani , AOR

JUDGMENT

K.M. JOSEPH, J.

1. This Miscellaneous application No.1902 of 2022 is filed in Contempt Petition (Civil) No.2120/2018 in SLP (Civil) No.20417/2017. The applicant in this application is contemnor No.10 (Dr. Shivinder Mohan Singh). The contempt petition culminated in an order dated 15th November, 2019. We need only refer to the record of proceedings dated 15th November, 2019 which indicates how the matter was dealt with by the Court.

"ii) Malvinder Mohan Singh, Director of Oscar Investments Limited and Diretor of RHC Holding Private Limited (Contemnor Nos.9 and 12) and Shivinder Mohan Singh, Director of Oscar Investments Limited and Director of RHC Holding Private Limited (Contemnor Nos.10 and 13) have knowingly and willfully violated the orders of this Court dated 11.08.2017, 31.08.2017 and 15.02.2018 as continued on 23.02.2018. Therefore, we hold both of them guilty of committing Contempt of this Court. We give one chance to them to purge themselves of the contempt. We, direct that in case each of the contemnors deposits a sum of Rs.1170.95 crores in this Court within eight weeks from today then we may consider dealing with them in a lenient manner, while imposing sentence."

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2022 Supreme(SC) 1177

K. M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROYVinay Prakash Singh – AppellantVersusSameer Gehlaut – Respondent

K. M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROY
Vinay Prakash Singh – Appellant
Versus
Sameer Gehlaut – Respondent